Google Earth-Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertipsMath Lessons Google Sketchup- great for geometry, math, CAD, projects! Google Docs- online word processing, spreadsheets, presentations and more - share, collaborate, store your work - works seamlessly with Office applications
Microblogging - what are you doing? in 140 characters or less! Twitter– great way to network with others! Edmodo - private - education version of Twitter
Wikis
wiki means "quick" in Hawaiian - a wiki is a quick way to make a collaborative web page and share files wikispaces pbwiki
Online Collaborative Education Environments:
The Global Education CollaborativeThe Global Education Collaborative is an online community for teachers and students who are interested in joining global education projects. With more than 800 members, the site encourages users to post media, blogs, and ideas for advancing collaborative education worldwide. The site operates similar to an online social network, allowing members to search for each other, post pictures and videos, and join groups around a common theme or project. http:// classroom20.com/- the social networking site for educators. Great place to create a space for you, join in discussion forums with other educators around the globe, create a blog, share you photos and videos, etc. Visit Judy's Classroom 2.0 space and join Classroom 2.0 - let's be friends! Ning - create your own social network HotChalk - Your own classroom webpage - easy to create and maintain for assignments, messages, class roster and gradebook! delicious - social bookmarking - keep your favorites on a web page where you can access them from any online computer and share them with others Tapped In- Tapped In is much more than a website; it's a community and an online environment. The tools currently available include support for creating groups online and the ability to create and edit a files, links, and notes in Tapped In. Yahoo Groups - A Yahoo! Group is any group that uses Yahoo! Groups to privately share info, images, ideas and more — on the web. Good for sharing files, having discussions, etc. It’s free, secure and spam-protected.
Photo Storage, Sharing, SlideShows, Projects
Flickr- online photo management and sharing, search for photos, store photos here instead of taking up space on your hard drive Picasa 3– Google’s newest photo editing software and free online site for uploading and sharing photos Animoto- Takes just minutes to create a video. Bring your lessons to life. Post/embed videos elsewhere or download them for in-class presentations! OneTrueMedia- Mix photos, videos and their effects for "video editing" and sharing SmileBox Teacher Tools - free 1 year subscription, simply drag and drop photos or videos. Smilebox is a creative and secure way to spice up your classroom communication - perfect for newsletters, overviews of teaching units, performance and field trip recaps, activities and more.
SlideShare - place to share presentations with others (Powerpoint, Keynote, etc.) SlideShare is the best way to share your presentations with the world. Let your ideas reach a broad audience. Share publicly or privately. Add audio to create a webinar. SlideRocket - a web application that provides everything you need to design professional quality presentations, manage and share libraries of slides and assets, and to deliver presentations in person or remotely over the web. ShowBeyond - a multimedia slidecast creator, online publishing platform and story sharing community. With ShowBeyond, you can easily grab your images, add your sound and text to create multimedia stories. Then, you can share your stories with friends or post to blogs and social networking sites.
Podcasts
VoiceThread - group conversations around images, documents, and videos - great for ESL or foreign language instruction. Now there is an educational version of VoiceThread. Someone at your school will need to subscribe - this will keep students from looking at unsuitable content and keep "unwanted" people from commenting on your students' work. The link to learn more is//http://ed.voicethread.com/share/36941/// The Education Podcast Network - The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.
The Awesome Highlighter- Awesome Highlighter lets you highlight text on web pages and then gives you a small link to the highlighted page. Simply copy and page the link and email or send in instant message to someone. Skype – make audio/video calls from your computer
Introducing Web 2.0 (Video from TeacherTube)
Google Apps for Education
Google Earth -Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips Math LessonsGoogle Sketchup- great for geometry, math, CAD, projects!
Google Docs- online word processing, spreadsheets, presentations and more - share, collaborate, store your work - works seamlessly with Office applications
Blogs
a blog is an online web journalClassBlogmeister
Blogger
eduBlogs
Microblogging - what are you doing? in 140 characters or less!
Twitter– great way to network with others!
Edmodo - private - education version of Twitter
Wikis
wiki means "quick" in Hawaiian - a wiki is a quick way to make a collaborative web page and share fileswikispaces
pbwiki
Online Collaborative Education Environments:
The Global Education Collaborative The Global Education Collaborative is an online community for teachers and students who are interested in joining global education projects. With more than 800 members, the site encourages users to post media, blogs, and ideas for advancing collaborative education worldwide. The site operates similar to an online social network, allowing members to search for each other, post pictures and videos, and join groups around a common theme or project.
http:// classroom20.com/- the social networking site for educators. Great place to create a space for you, join in discussion forums with other educators around the globe, create a blog, share you photos and videos, etc. Visit Judy's Classroom 2.0 space and join Classroom 2.0 - let's be friends!
Ning - create your own social network
HotChalk - Your own classroom webpage - easy to create and maintain for assignments, messages, class roster and gradebook!
delicious - social bookmarking - keep your favorites on a web page where you can access them from any online computer and share them with others
Tapped In- Tapped In is much more than a website; it's a community and an online environment. The tools currently available include support for creating groups online and the ability to create and edit a files, links, and notes in Tapped In.
Yahoo Groups - A Yahoo! Group is any group that uses Yahoo! Groups to privately share info, images, ideas and more — on the web. Good for sharing files, having discussions, etc. It’s free, secure and spam-protected.
Photo Storage, Sharing, SlideShows, Projects
Flickr- online photo management and sharing, search for photos, store photos here instead of taking up space on your hard drivePicasa 3– Google’s newest photo editing software and free online site for uploading and sharing photos Animoto- Takes just minutes to create a video. Bring your lessons to life. Post/embed videos elsewhere or download them for in-class presentations!
OneTrueMedia- Mix photos, videos and their effects for "video editing" and sharing
SmileBox Teacher Tools - free 1 year subscription, simply drag and drop photos or videos. Smilebox is a creative and secure way to spice up your classroom communication - perfect for newsletters, overviews of teaching units, performance and field trip recaps, activities and more.
SlideShare - place to share presentations with others (Powerpoint, Keynote, etc.) SlideShare is the best way to share your presentations with the world. Let your ideas reach a broad audience. Share publicly or privately. Add audio to create a webinar.SlideRocket - a web application that provides everything you need to design professional quality presentations, manage and share libraries of slides and assets, and to deliver presentations in person or remotely over the web.
ShowBeyond - a multimedia slidecast creator, online publishing platform and story sharing community. With ShowBeyond, you can easily grab your images, add your sound and text to create multimedia stories. Then, you can share your stories with friends or post to blogs and social networking sites.
Podcasts
VoiceThread - group conversations around images, documents, and videos - great for ESL or foreign language instruction. Now there is an educational version of VoiceThread. Someone at your school will need to subscribe - this will keep students from looking at unsuitable content and keep "unwanted" people from commenting on your students' work. The link to learn more is //http://ed.voicethread.com/share/36941///The Education Podcast Network - The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.
The Tubes!! Video is all about sharing! YouTube TeacherTube SchoolTube and for our non-public schools: GodTube!
Other Web 2.0 Applications
The Awesome Highlighter- Awesome Highlighter lets you highlight text on web pages and then gives you a small link to the highlighted page. Simply copy and page the link and email or send in instant message to someone.Skype – make audio/video calls from your computer
Where to search for more Web 2.0 applications:
Check out the SEOmoz's Web 2.0 awards(listed here are the award winners for 2006-2008)
GoToWeb20 - the complete web 2.0 directory (not all are appropriate for education)